Japanese Fairy-tale Book

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This item shows colourful illustrations of various creatures (turtle, frog, lion, fox, and birds) on the cover. The illustrations inside the book are all black and white animals. The binding is red and has black flowers with gold centres. There is a blue stripe on the right side of the back cover. In the middle of the back cover is a gold and blue Roman statue head and design. On the spine at the bottom is the Arabic number three. This books contains kanji, hiragana, and katakana spread throughout the book. On the back cover a stamp reads, "MADE IN JAPAN". This is a Japanese version of Aesop's Fables, published in 1927.

Toragoro Nimi came to Vancouver in 1905 at the age of 15. He started working in sawmills and planer mills in Vancouver. Then his brother followed. In 1918, Toragoro and his father bought a drug store at 331 Powell Street in Vancouver. It was named "Nimi Shokai". Asians were not allowed to dispense western medications at that time; only Japanese-style herbal medications. So, Nimi Shokai sold non-prescription and Japanese herbal medications, Kodak cameras, film, 78 records of popular songs, pancake makeup, Shaffer pens, gift items, and binoculars.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

This record was digitized selectively.